End-to-End Testing Contracts

End-to-End Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for End-to-End Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited End-to-End Testing over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 352 324
Rank change year-on-year +35 -28 +21
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 276 385 741
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.67% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.75% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 255 518
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £402 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +16.96%
75th Percentile £638 £658 £600
90th Percentile £729 £775 £677
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile - £24.33 £25.20
25th Percentile - £28.94 £25.50
Median hourly rate £26.03 £37.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.12% +6.43% -31.54%
75th Percentile £29.38 £44.94 £49.50
90th Percentile £35.38 £49.18 £52.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.03 - £49.50
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

End-to-End Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

End-to-End Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing End-to-End Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for End-to-End Testing in the UK

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing End-to-End Testing.

Daily rate trend for End-to-End Testing in the UK

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing End-to-End Testing over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for End-to-End Testing in the UK

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing End-to-End Testing.

Hourly rate trend for End-to-End Testing in the UK

End-to-End Testing
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing End-to-End Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +3 209 £500 -9.09% 82
London +21 121 £533 -7.39% 39
Work from Home +92 115 £500 - 46
UK excluding London +19 110 £475 -9.52% 58
South East +26 39 £450 -10.00% 18
Scotland +55 24 £400 -3.61% 6
North of England -1 24 £500 -11.50% 9
North West +22 16 £581 +16.25% 6
East Midlands +20 13 £400 -44.56% 4
Midlands +11 13 £400 -28.57% 12
Yorkshire +5 7 £436 -30.24% 2
South West -10 7 £638 +18.09% 7
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 1
East of England +3 1 £375 -49.53% 6
North East -10 1 £395 -30.09% 1

End-to-End Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (7.25%) Confluence
2 7 (2.54%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.17%) CMS
4 4 (1.45%) Apache
4 4 (1.45%) IIS
4 4 (1.45%) JBoss
5 3 (1.09%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.09%) Tornado
5 3 (1.09%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (1.45%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (5.80%) Oracle AGIS
1 16 (5.80%) Oracle Assets
2 15 (5.43%) Oracle EBS
2 15 (5.43%) Oracle General Ledger
2 15 (5.43%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (2.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (2.17%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (1.45%) SAP ERP
6 4 (1.45%) SAP Payroll
6 4 (1.45%) SAP WM
7 2 (0.72%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.72%) Oracle Internet Expenses
8 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.36%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (21.38%) AWS
2 44 (15.94%) Azure
3 14 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (5.07%) Dynamics 365
4 13 (4.71%) GCP
5 12 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (3.99%) Amazon S3
6 11 (3.99%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (3.62%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (2.90%) Amazon ECR
8 8 (2.90%) Route 53
8 8 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (2.17%) Serverless
9 6 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
10 5 (1.81%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.81%) GitHub
10 5 (1.81%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.45%) IBM Blueworks
11 4 (1.45%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.54%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.81%) SSL
3 1 (0.36%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 20 (7.25%) Relational Database
3 12 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (3.99%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.81%) MySQL
6 5 (1.81%) Power BI
7 4 (1.45%) DB2
7 4 (1.45%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.72%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.72%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 49 (17.75%) JIRA
2 26 (9.42%) Git
3 23 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 18 (6.52%) Cucumber
5 16 (5.80%) Selenium
6 14 (5.07%) JUnit
7 11 (3.99%) Cypress.io
7 11 (3.99%) GitLab
7 11 (3.99%) webpack
8 8 (2.90%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.90%) Postman
9 7 (2.54%) JMeter
9 7 (2.54%) TestRail
10 5 (1.81%) Maven
10 5 (1.81%) SpecFlow
11 4 (1.45%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.45%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (1.45%) TestNG
11 4 (1.45%) Vagrant
General
1 78 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 62 (22.46%) Finance
3 39 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.97%) Banking
4 22 (7.97%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.43%) General Ledger
6 13 (4.71%) Front Office
7 12 (4.35%) Marketing
8 11 (3.99%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.62%) Automotive
10 7 (2.54%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.54%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.81%) Electronics
12 4 (1.45%) German Language
12 4 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.45%) Retail
13 3 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.09%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 69 (25.00%) Developer
2 39 (14.13%) Analyst
3 27 (9.78%) Lead
3 27 (9.78%) Test Manager
3 27 (9.78%) Tester
4 24 (8.70%) Java Developer
5 23 (8.33%) Test Analyst
6 18 (6.52%) Architect
6 18 (6.52%) Senior
6 18 (6.52%) Test Engineer
7 14 (5.07%) Software Developer
7 14 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.71%) Python Developer
9 12 (4.35%) Oracle Architect
9 12 (4.35%) Oracle Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.62%) Consultant
10 10 (3.62%) Manual Tester
10 10 (3.62%) React Developer
10 10 (3.62%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.26%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.96%) React
1 33 (11.96%) RESTful
2 22 (7.97%) REST
3 21 (7.61%) Kafka
4 20 (7.25%) Spring
4 20 (7.25%) Spring Boot
5 18 (6.52%) FastAPI
5 18 (6.52%) Node.js
5 18 (6.52%) WebSockets
6 17 (6.16%) Redux
7 15 (5.43%) CSS
8 12 (4.35%) .NET
8 12 (4.35%) HTML
9 9 (3.26%) ADO
10 8 (2.90%) Express.js
10 8 (2.90%) OAuth
10 8 (2.90%) Playwright
11 7 (2.54%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.54%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (2.54%) OpenTracing
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.35%) Data Structures
2 9 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.90%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.54%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.17%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.81%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.45%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.45%) Market Risk
7 4 (1.45%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.09%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.09%) FMCG
8 3 (1.09%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.09%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.72%) Equities
9 2 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.72%) PKI
9 2 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.14%) Linux
2 13 (4.71%) Windows
3 12 (4.35%) Unix
4 4 (1.45%) AIX
4 4 (1.45%) Android
4 4 (1.45%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.45%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (1.45%) Solaris
5 2 (0.72%) VMS
5 2 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (41.30%) Agile
2 77 (27.90%) Test Automation
3 58 (21.01%) User Acceptance Testing
4 56 (20.29%) CI/CD
5 49 (17.75%) Integration Testing
6 46 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
7 45 (16.30%) DevOps
7 45 (16.30%) Test Scripting
8 39 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (13.77%) Software Testing
10 33 (11.96%) Scrum
11 31 (11.23%) Continuous Integration
11 31 (11.23%) Test Strategy
11 31 (11.23%) Unit Testing
12 28 (10.14%) Software Engineering
13 27 (9.78%) Test Management
14 26 (9.42%) Microservices
14 26 (9.42%) Project Management
15 25 (9.06%) Functional Testing
15 25 (9.06%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 66 (23.91%) SQL
2 55 (19.93%) Python
3 45 (16.30%) Java
4 39 (14.13%) TypeScript
5 35 (12.68%) JavaScript
6 17 (6.16%) C#
7 10 (3.62%) Kotlin
7 10 (3.62%) Scala
8 9 (3.26%) C++
9 5 (1.81%) C
9 5 (1.81%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.09%) Bash
10 3 (1.09%) Perl
10 3 (1.09%) Ruby
10 3 (1.09%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.72%) Groovy
11 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.36%) Go
12 1 (0.36%) VB
12 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.30%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.87%) Degree
4 23 (8.33%) ISTQB
5 11 (3.99%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 6 (2.17%) ISEB
8 5 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.45%) CIPD
10 3 (1.09%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (1.09%) HNC
10 3 (1.09%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.72%) ISEB Practitioner
11 2 (0.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (17.03%) QA
2 15 (5.43%) GAAP
3 8 (2.90%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.81%) PMO
6 4 (1.45%) SLA
7 2 (0.72%) Def Stans
7 2 (0.72%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.72%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.36%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (9.78%) Docker
2 4 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.45%) VirtualBox
3 2 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (12.68%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.62%) Grafana
3 7 (2.54%) Prometheus
3 7 (2.54%) Terraform
3 7 (2.54%) Zipkin
4 6 (2.17%) Ansible
5 5 (1.81%) HP Quality Center
6 4 (1.45%) Tivoli
7 3 (1.09%) HP ALM
7 3 (1.09%) Nagios
7 3 (1.09%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.09%) Puppet
8 2 (0.72%) Istio
8 2 (0.72%) Kibana
9 1 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 46 (16.67%) Oracle
2 33 (11.96%) SAP
3 23 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.35%) OpenAI
5 9 (3.26%) Splunk
6 8 (2.90%) Google
6 8 (2.90%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.54%) IBM
8 6 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.45%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.45%) Confluent
9 4 (1.45%) Databricks
9 4 (1.45%) F5
9 4 (1.45%) HP
10 3 (1.09%) Adobe
10 3 (1.09%) Murex
10 3 (1.09%) New Relic
10 3 (1.09%) OpenText
10 3 (1.09%) VMware
11 2 (0.72%) NEC